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<h1>Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#overview" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>While rosjava is mostly feature complete, it is currently under active
development. Consider all APIs and documentation to be volatile.</p>
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<h2>Android friendly<a class="headerlink" href="#android-friendly" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>One of the primary goals of rosjava is to bring ROS to Android. See the
android_core <a class="reference external" href="http://rosjava.github.com/android_core/getting_started.html#getting-started" title="(in android_core v0.0.0-SNAPSHOT)"><em>Getting started</em></a> documentation for more
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<h2>Asynchronous<a class="headerlink" href="#asynchronous" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Because ROS is heavily dependent on network communication, rosjava is
asynchronous. No attempt is made to hide asynchronous behavior behind a
synchronous API. As a result, the rosjava APIs may feel unfamiliar.</p>
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<h2>More threads, fewer processes<a class="headerlink" href="#more-threads-fewer-processes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>You will not find a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">spin()</span></tt> method in rosjav in rosjava. Unlike other client
libraries, many rosjava nodes can run in a thread pool within a single JVM
process. In this way, rosjava nodes are similar to C++ nodlets. In the future,
rosjava nodes will support in memory communication in the same way that C++
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